defection

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Recent Examples of defection While so far no willingness to take up new lives in South Korea has been expressed, the potential defection of these soldiers would add an unusual dimension to the ongoing conflict and South Korea's history of welcoming defectors. Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025 Inside The Post, the move ignited turmoil, leading to several recent high-profile defections. Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2025 With a 53-47 majority in the Senate, Hegseth can afford only three Republican defections for confirmation if all Democrats vote against him. Lalee Ibssa, ABC News, 14 Jan. 2025 Such defections are a luxury that Republican leaders can’t afford this year given their narrow majority. Andrew Duehren, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for defection 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for defection
Noun
  • Snuffer is a lawyer who lives in Utah and was excommunicated from the LDS Church in 2013 for apostasy.
    Lizz Schumer, People.com, 29 Sep. 2024
  • This is the apostasy of the age, refusing to give these spiritually lost characters their proper complexity.
    Armond White, National Review, 8 May 2024
Noun
  • The action hinges largely on disappointments, betrayals, desertions that already happened, an offscreen past often referred to but never shown.
    Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
  • The State Bureau of Investigation opened a criminal case in December regarding the management of the brigade, which has experienced high levels of desertion and issues related to staffing and management.
    Marc Santora, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • There is certainly a schism between the mayor and the chief.
    Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The private caucus leadership vote, which resulted in Taylor's reelection, revealed deeper schisms within the already fractured party.
    Hayleigh Colombo, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Even so, such concerns are newly urgent in light of the Supreme Court’s recent abandonment of the legal tests for whether a government action is constitutional that enabled the successful litigation against the second wave of attacks on evolution education.
    Glenn Branch, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The car's abandonment was captured on a security camera and the person behind the wheel was recorded exiting the vehicle and walking away.
    Alex Gurley, People.com, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The second major structural change involves one of the hallmarks of SARS-CoV-2 as compared to SARS-CoV-1: initial scission at the S1 furin cleavage site.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 6 May 2022
  • When the nucleus ultimately disintegrates, these pieces move apart rapidly and the neck snaps quickly, a process known as scission.
    Charles Q. Choi, Scientific American, 24 Feb. 2021
Noun
  • The story follows two neighbors, played by Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Maggie Cheung, who form a deep, unspoken connection after suspecting their spouses of infidelity.
    Janey Tracey, EW.com, 7 Feb. 2025
  • On top of that, Hegseth had to pay for his two divorces, at least in part due to his own infidelity.
    Kyle Khan-Mullins, Forbes, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • On September 18, 2023, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau alleged that the Indian government had killed Hardeep Singh Nijjar in British Columbia over his useless push for Sikh separatism.
    Daniel Block, The Atlantic, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Some Black critics, including W. E. B. Du Bois, denounced his Black separatist views and his relationship with the Ku Klux Klan, who shared Garvey's goal of racial separatism.
    Delano Massey, Axios, 4 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Trump’s misguided belief that inside of every Canadian there is an American waiting to get out is a misconception that is actually older than the U.S. itself.
    Lawrence B.A. Hatter / Made by History, TIME, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Choi says there's a misconception that only a certain type of skin can achieve this look.
    Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2025

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“Defection.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defection. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.

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